Since my poetic nerve has been acting up lately and since I got...well, since my wife and I got a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas (I can't think of a better gift!), I picked up Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems, a bilingual volume (Spanish and English) edited and with a foreword by Nathaniel Tarn. I've wanted it for a while now, since I first came across it here, and I'm anxious to dive in.Don't worry: I'll keep you posted on my time with Pablo.
And for a little taste of the man himself, you can find some of his poems here and here.
Happy reading.
(Image from redpoppy.net.)
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ReplyDeleteI read my first volume of Neruda last year and while I liked it, I was enthralled by the Picasso illustrations. That caught me offguard....
It was a Valentine's Day gift from the missus. Apropos, n'est cepas?
I'm sure Pablo and Pablo make a great combo. Selected Poems doesn't have illustrations with it, so I'm stuck with just the words, which, frankly, paint quite the enthralling picture themselves.
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